The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #21184   Message #224911
Posted By: Pene Azul
08-May-00 - 07:27 PM
Thread Name: Why Keys?
Subject: RE: Why Keys?
Having learned the distinction between well tempering and equal tempering (prompted by this thread), I began to wonder how many temperaments are known to have been in use? I found a cool page on Alternate Temperaments which contains a chart of 18 historic temperaments. So there are at least 19, and those are all 12-note systems.